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• How to Make Color Splash Effect Video
• App to do color splash

When we want to highlight something in our video there are various of different methods in achieving that. You can make the object pop out by razing its colors or by desaturating all the non-important stuff around it. Color splash video is a type of content where we use a specific method in producing such video effects to make colors pop. The core feature of that effect is that we shift emphasis from the whole scene onto the main subject of the video whether it be a person or an object that we want to describe. The effect is used sparingly but still respected for certain types of video content.

How to Make Color Splash Effect Video

We can achieve color splash video effects in different ways. The main feature of that effect is that we need to isolate the current color in our scene and make the rest grayscaled including the background. That is the easiest way to shift the viewer’s attention to details. There are various methods to isolate color. We can make a mask, clipping path, or use a color mask. Anyway, we have to work with set and already recorded footage with all the elements inside the scene.

There are a lot of apps that claim they are able to do color splash effects. These apps are mostly good for photo content, but when you have a video with moving objects here is when things get complicated. To achieve the best accuracy and to make sure we do not get any artifacts during the process it is better to do everything manually. Unlike photos, where the image is static, and it is relatively easy to isolate any object to create a mask, working with videos has its own peculiarities. The image in a video is dynamic, resulting in blurry edges around objects. To work with an object, it is necessary not only to outline its shape but also to consider the dynamics of its edges. This requires a significant amount of manual work from a video editor who possesses not only knowledge and understanding of the process but also sufficient experience.

The color splash method involves selecting a portion of the video that needs to retain its color, while desaturating all other objects in the frame, including the background, to create the color splash video effect. Then we can use various tools to mask the object that we want to have color splash on or simply to save colors on it. In Adobe After Effects, we can use the Roto Brush Tool and drag lines over the object which will create the mask and make sure it does not overlap with the background. Then we allow the computer to process our footage frame by frame. Most of the time we see that the computer misinterprets the subject and adds background into the masked object. Here is when we have to manually adjust our mask frame by frame and this is a very routine job to do. If everything is done right we maintain the color within our subject on the footage and the background stays black and white with the rest. Sounds complicated, right? That is why there is an easier way to do so.

App to do color splash

As creating the effect is very time-consuming and requires experience to navigate in specific software’s interface, most people would prefer using apps that are capable of doing it instead of wasting their time. As we mentioned earlier, this effect is hard to precisely achieve by any app that uses automatic algorithms and scripts to provide you with the effect. However, our team of professional editors would be glad to help you with this. We developed an interactive application – RetouchMe that allows you to get the effect with a couple of clicks. The app allows you to interact with our editors who work on your footage in real-time and give you results online through the app. You simply upload your footage, choose the color splash option there, and send it for processing to our editors. They work in such programs as Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and many others. They do all the routine for you while you just drink a cup of coffee.

How to use the service “B&W background”

The RetouchMe application is available on iOS and Android platforms. You can download it from the Apple App Store, Google Play or Amazon App Store. The download is free. However, to use the service within the application, you will need a certain number of credits, the price of which depends on the selected services. To add credits to your balance, you can either buy top-up packages or subscribe on a monthly basis.

1. Launch or download the RetouchMe application.
2. Select a photo from your gallery that you want to use the “B&W background” service on.
3. Choose the category “Video”.
4. In this category, select the desired service “B&W background”.
5. Price of the “B&W background” service: 150 ⭐.
6. After selecting the services you want to use for the video, click on the "Proceed" button.
7. Review your order once again and click "Send to designer."

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